Major Web Outage Affects Numerous Websites and Mobile Apps

An extensive internet disruption has affected numerous sites and mobile apps worldwide, as users reporting troubles accessing the internet due to difficulties at the cloud computing platform.

The affected platforms comprise Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-owned operations like its key e-commerce platform and the Ring home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was affected as well as its affiliates Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and also reports of problems reaching the HM Revenue and Customs site on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, several Ring users used social media to state their security devices were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of problems on specific platforms ran into the many thousands for each app.

The company stated that the problem originated in the east coast of the America at the cloud division, a section that supplies crucial internet infrastructure for numerous companies, who lease capacity on Amazon servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global cloud computing system.

Soon after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), officials reported “elevated failure rates and delays” for the cloud services in a area on the east coast of the America. The ripple effect appeared to disrupt services around the world, with the outage tracking website indicating outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that reports on web disruptions, further indicated a surge in outages on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the Virginia area, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the issues originated.